08.03.09
YouTube Broken Links?
Been seeing lots of removed material on YouTube? This might be why: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) imposes penalties for infringement of copyrighted works as well as safe harbor provisions for online service providers and other intermediaries. To be protected by the safe harbor, the service provider must block access or remove material for which a copyright holder claims infringement. The copyright holder sends a “takedown notice” to the service provider at the email address published by the provider for that purpose. The service provider must, for the safe harbor to apply, remove the material and notify the user who posted the material that the material was removed pursuant to such a request.
